Best Practices Or Today's Practices?

Does/should WAI:

  • Act as an evangelist for emerging W3C technologies?
  • Assume that the W3C philosophy is true ("by following these guidelines content developers can create pages that degrade gracefully …")
  • Address real world concerns in an environment of broken browsers, commercially driven interests, proprietary formats, …

XML

CSS SMIL SVG RDF

G6 Ensure that pages are accessible even when newer technologies .. not supported

If I use SMIL, how do I dumb things down to HTML?

Typical Problems

Slide Comments:

Text-Only Version Text-Mostly Version Graphic Version